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Killearnan History

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Unearthing Redcastles Hidden History by Colin MacLeod (2007)

Ross and Cromarty Heritage Society is grateful to Colin MacLeod for permission to reproduce Unearthing Redcastle’s Hidden History and to Treasure Trove Scotland for permission to reproduce images which are Crown Copyright.

Attribution: Colin MacLeod

Carn Glas

In October 2015 a group of more than 50 people attended a ceremony at Carn Glas, a Neolithic chambered burial cairn at the Heights of Kilcoy. The cairn is regarded as one of the finest monuments in the area, dating back to c. 3600 BC.

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Statistical Accounts

On the 25 May 1790, Sir John Sinclair, Baronet of Ulbster in Caithness wrote to over nine hundred Parish ministers throughout Scotland asking them to contribute to a Statistical Inquiry by answering as best they could,a series of one hundred and sixty-six Queries respecting each Parish.

The New (or Second) Statistical Account of Scotland built on the previous work carried out by Sir John Sinclair for the First Statistical Accounts by including the knowledge of local doctors and schoolmasters. The Second Statistical Accounts were published between 1834 and 1845.

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Fig 58 to 61 - belt buckles

Fig 62 - 1624 silver sixpence

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Fig 63 - turners

Fig 64 - bawbees

Fig 65 - sixpence dates 1707 minted in Edinburgh

Fig 66 - bullhead shillilng; 67 - halfpennies and pennies; 68 - Irish cartwheel pennies, farthings and a counterfeit half crown

Fig 69 - halfpennies, pennies and a three-pence piece, a pierced four-penny coin, sixpence and three shillings

Fig 70 - horse pendant

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Redcastle

Redcastle is situated near the shore of the Beauly Firth some five miles north of Beauly

The two postcards reproduced above are by kind permission of Mr Brian Maclennan, Dingwall.

Unearthing Redcastle's Hidden History by Colin MacLeod

Ross and Cromarty Heritage Society is grateful to Colin MacLeod for permission to reproduce Unearthing Redcastle's Hidden History and to Treasure Trove Scotland for permission to reproduce images which are Crown Copyright. These are the photographs from the book - we have also incorporated then in a document with the text which can be found in the library section of our website.